Is a President really responsible for COVID deaths in the U.S.?

In the last half of 2020 it was impossible to get through a day without someone blaming President Trump for the deaths caused by COVID-19. Not China’s fault. Not local leaders faults. Not anyone’s fault, except Trump and Trump alone.

My question today is this: Is the President really responsible for COVID deaths in the United State4?

President Biden has been in office for 4 days now and I have yet to come across anything (TV, internet, etc) that blames him for the COVID deaths since noon on January 20th. According to this COVID tracker there have been 12,000+ deaths since Biden took the oath. Is he as responsible for those as Trump was for the deaths in 2020?

A friend of mine on Facebook said this…

One of the most disingenuous parts of this election was the dishonest shameless politicization of COVID. It was so disappointing to watch, I was sure nobody would exploit a pandemic. But I was wrong, so go politics I guess.

…and he’s right (thanks CF, for the comment!). It’s unfortunate the crisis became political and Donald Trump didn’t do much to keep that from happening. I’m not saying he’s to blame for all of it becoming political but there was definitely an opportunity for Americans to unite in a singular cause, and have that cause championed by the President. One thing he cannot be accused of: killing hundreds of thousands of people.

Contrary to what the big media tech companies are/were telling us, we don’t have to blame the President for something of which he’s not guilty. Joe Biden hasn’t killed 12,000 people. Donald Trump didn’t kill 396,000 people. But as biased as the mainstream media was in 2020, they seem to have doubled down in 2021, likening Joe Biden to a deity come to heal and save us. Just check out the montage below and you’ll soon realize how ludicrous things have become.

What are your thoughts on this? Is it fair for Trump to be accused of this during his presidency, but not Biden? Chime in below and let’s chat!

Thanks for stopping by…

-Out of the Wilderness

Kamala Harris Secretly Slides Transfer of Power Slip into Executive Orders Biden is Signing

Washington, D.C. — It’s Day 3 of the Biden/Harris administration serving as President and Vice President and Joe Biden has hit the ground running, signing more than a dozen executive orders. Among the stack of directives were plans to halt border wall funding, lifting the travel ban, and a handful of orders related to the coronavirus.

This will indeed please the Democrat base who voted for Biden and running mate Kamala Harris who both promised to undo many of the so-called “accomplishments” of former President Donald Trump. At a recent Q&A with the Vice President, a member of the press asked Harris about the mood in the White House as the executive orders were being signed. With a peculiar wink, she nodded and said, “Everything is going according to plan.” Asked if she could explain what this meant, Kamala Harris winked again, saying, “The situation is under control.”

What she meant became much more clear when a source close to the VP revealed that while Biden was hastily whipping through the orders, he unknowingly signed a permission slip granting Harris the Presidency of the United States.

Biden has yet to comment on the stunning turn of events but has been caught on White House security cameras turning in circles repeating, “Who’s the President? You are, Robinette.” As if it were pulled directly from an episode of “Saved by the Bell,” it appears Harris has successfully performed the ‘Morris Maneuver’ — a trick Zack Morris often used to get his parents to sign for things like detention, a new car, or ownership of Belding’s house.

The White House Press Secretary was quick to point out Kamala Harris is Catholic, and that “we have bigger issues to worry about at this time.” She might be referring to deciding who tells Biden he’s no longer President, or more importantly, who will find Biden– reports coming in that he was last seen wandering aimlessly down Pennsylvania Avenue.

-OTW News

Treadmill was a bad idea

The other day I made it over to the gym for a leg workout. Those are fun.

What I didn’t know is that working out my legs wouldn’t be the most difficult part of the gym visit. After finishing with weights, I hopped on a treadmill for a mile run. Still, not the hard part of the workout, even though running on a treadmill is one of my least favorite things in the world. My gym has about a thousand treadmills but, of course, the few people using them near me were hot women.

You might be thinking, “So what’s the problem?”

I know, I know… hot women are hot, but I’m trying to limit temptation in my life. Certainly there’s enough of it in many other areas of life (TV, movies, etc), and women at the gym are usually wearing tight clothes so that definitely adds to the attraction, whether they know it or not.

So as I’m running in place, I mention that now would be a good time for God to somehow get me out of this, while I’m staring straight ahead and trying not to glance in any direction towards the hot women.

The moral of this story is this: when you need God to come through, just talk to Him about it. And turn up the speed on your treadmill, metaphorically. I believe prayer works, but it’s also a two way street. While I was waiting for a way out, it was important for me to run faster so I could complete the mile and get out of there. My brother mentioned something to me a long time ago that has stuck with me…

Pray as if it all depends on God. Work as if it all depends on me.

So to sum up: Men, it’s best to find a gym that only has ugly women. You’ll be better off.

-Out of the Wilderness

Scenes you missed in Olivia Rodrigo’s “Driver’s License”

If you’ve been to my site before, you probably know I like writing about music videos whether it’s one from Taylor Swift, Luke Combs, Camila Cabello, or any others on my music video page. Today’s post is about a new video from newcomer Olivia Rodrigo. Take a look…

There are two montages including very quick clips flashing by in a blur in this music video. So quick, in fact, each montage is only half a second! If you missed the images in each montage, I got you covered. First up is the set of 16 images appearing at timecode 2:34.

The next montage at timecode 3:21 includes some clips from the first montage, along with the following images:

And for more from the video shoot, here’s a behind the scenes look:

You can follow Olivia by clicking the links below for her social channels. Thanks for stopping by!

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-Out of the Wilderness

Joe Biden, our new precedent

If there are any take-aways from 2020, it’s that people loved to say it was “unprecedented times,” and if I hear one more person say “pivot” and they’re NOT talking about Ross from Friends, I might throw a couch at their face.

when Ross says it, it’s funny.

Joe Biden has definitely been a trailblazer for future presidential candidates. He’s set a precedent for campaigning from a basement, calling your opponent racist when you can’t think of anything else to say about them, not being eloquent (or even coherent), picking a running mate simply based on their gender and race (which actually sounds sexist and racist, right?), and lastly… cheating. Now, I’m not naive. In every election there is probably some element of cutting corners, or misleading people, or even fraud, but whether Joe knows it or not, his party set a new standard for how low they’ll go to win. So much for “when they go low, we go high,” right Michelle?

For now, we’ll live under our new Commander-in-Cheat. That is, until the first black, Asian, white, Hispanic, woman, man, non-binary, person, non-person Kamala Harris takes over. I give it a few months. Until then, I guess we shall live with the Democrat’s mirage of “unity.”

Thanks for stopping by!

-Out of the Wilderness